My friend's beans (1985)

1917年、カリフォルニア州の小都市サリナス。ここで農場を営むアダムには2人の息子がいた。兄アーロンが真面目で心優しい性格から父に可愛がられる一方、気むずかしく反抗的な弟キャルは父に疎まれていた。アーロンの美しい婚約者エイブラはそんなキャルが気がかりだった。ある日、キャルは父から死んだと聞かされていた母がまだ生きていることを知る。そしてそれが、どうやら近くで酒場を経営するケートらしいと知り、ふしだらな母の血を自分だけが引き継いだのだと一人悩むのだった。

Two couples go on a boating holiday together, and run into some strange people and events.

W.C.Fields enters the Warmer Bros. Studio. Beans tries to drive in, but the guard throws him and his car against a tree. Charlie Chaplin drives in, followed by Oliver Hardy on foot - but we see that it's really Beans in disguise. Oliver Owl is directing a picture; Beans sneaks onto the stage. He's watching from a catwalk when someone knocks him off, into the middle of the scene. Beans is thrown off the set, right into the set of a Frankenstein movie. He accidentally brings the robotic monster to life, and it crashes into the original studio, eating the camera. Beans tries to stop the monster, but is sent flying. He lands against a wind machine. which chops up the monster.

Bottleneck is an experimental video which is, in part, a reflection on borders. Using a jar of sprouting Mung beans as a metaphor it takes into consideration contemporary manifestations of national borders as they relate to regional and international growth and movement. This video emerges from questions such as: Who gains access? How does water transform a space and its borders? Who can move freely and access resources? What moves in and out of a given space and the boundaries that attempt to demarcate and contain it?